Open AccessA “Pura Vida” Summer in Costa Rica
Author(s) -
Hailie Allen
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
journal of international students
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.47
H-Index - 15
eISSN - 2166-3750
pISSN - 2162-3104
DOI - 10.32674/jis.v1i2.548
Subject(s) - memphis , feeling , study abroad , psychology , sociology , geography , pedagogy , social psychology , botany , biology
Upon returning to the Memphis airport on the third of July 2011, having been out of the country for a month, the thirteen other students from Arkansas State University and I were exhausted, ready to see our loved ones, and to eat anything other than rice and beans. It was a bittersweet feeling to be home. We had just completed a study abroad program in the extraordinarily beautiful country of Costa Rica.